Looks great.

Like you say, I'm not sure whether VBA can directly pass parameters to an already running perl program. This is definitely a start, though.

Can Perl take its STDIN from another text file / script? I can easily make VBA dynamically write a small text file, and if Perl is setup to dynamically (since the Perl script will keep running until I kill it) read that same text file for its parameters, it just might work. Perl would keep looping and reading the text file until VBA changed it, then Perl would spit out some different output and VBA would read it (I think reading dynamic output from an already running Perl program is easier than writing to it).

In reply to Re^4: Absolute simplest way to keep a database variable persistent? by natestraight
in thread Absolute simplest way to keep a database variable persistent? by natestraight

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